In most of the fections there is a digreffional article, to prevent repetitions, concerning fome things which are in common to feveral colonies, but inferted in that fection or colony the most noted for those things; thus 1. in the section for Maffachusetts fhould have been inferted the affair of paper currencies, as they did originate and were carried to the greateft discount or fraud there : but as by a late act of affembly confirmed by the king in council, paper currencies are terminated in that province, we drop it. 2. As Pifcataqua, alias New-Hampshire, has for many years been noted for royal mafting contracts, we chose to infert in that SECTION, fome things concerning mafting, lumber, and other timber for conftruction or building, for joiners and for turners work; and if that article does not fwell too much, we may infert some other foreft trees and flowering fhrubs fit for boccages, parks and gardens. 3. As Rhode-Island has been noted for fectaries, from no religion to the most enthusiaftick, there is defigned fome account of our plantations or colony fectaries; though at present Penfylvania exceed them in that refpect, where befides the RhodeInland fectaries, are to be found a fect of free-thinkers who attend no publick worship, and are called keep-athome proteftants; publick popifh mafs-houses; and fome fectaries imported lately from Germany, fuch as Moravians called unitas fratrum or united brethren, who have had fome indulgencies by act of parliament 1749. 4. Connecticut, a colony of fagacious laborious husbandmen, first in courfe naturally claims the digreffion concerning grain and grazing; it is true New-York, Jerfies, and Penfylvania at prefent much exceed them in grain. and manufacturing their wheat into flour. 5. Maryland and Virginia for tobacco, and mast for raising fwine or pork. 6. The Carolinas for rice, fkins, and hides. Georgia as an inftance of an Utopian unprofitable colony. To render this hiftory as compleat as may at present be expected, I have annexed fome maps of the feveral colonies, not borrowed from borrowing erroneous hackney 7. map map publishers, but originals compofed and lately printed in the several countries: For inftance, with the fection of the colony of Connecticut, the laft of the four NewEngland colonies, I annex a* correct map of the dominions of New-England, extended from 40 d. 30 m. to 44 d. 30 m. N. Lat: and from 68 d. 50 m. to 74 d. 50 m. W. Longitude from London. To the colony of Penfylvania is annexed a † map of New-York, the Jerfies and Pensylvania, published 1749, by Mr. Evans in Penfylvania, much more accurate than any hitherto published. To the colony of North-Carolina, is annexed a map of North-Carolina, and fome parts of South-Carolina principally with regard to the fea-coaft and lands adjoining; this large inland country is waste or vacant, and confequently delineated at random by col. Edward Mosely of North-Carolina. en This map is founded upon a chorographical plan, compofed from actual furveys of the lines or boundaries with the neighbouring colonies, and from the plans of the several townships and districts copied from the records lodged in the fecretaries office and townships records, with the writers perambulations: when this plan is printed, the author as a benefaction gives gratis, to every township and diftrict, a copper plate copy; as the writer of the fummary had impartially narrated the management of a late g which could not bear the light; to check the credit of the author, the g deavoured (as fhall be accounted for) to divert, impede, or defeat this publick generous-fpirited amusement, but in vain. The writer in his journeys upon account of his chorography and other occafions (formerly used to fuch amusements in the gardens of Paris and Leyden) has en paffant, but with fome fatigue, made a collection of above eleven hundred indigenous plants, claffically defcribed and refered to icons in Botanick writers which have the nearest semblance, as the fpecifick icons could not conveniently be cut here; this is an amufement proper for gentlemen of eftates and leifure, it is not quite fo ridiculous as our modern virtuofo amusements of fhells, butterflies, &c. The medical or medicinal part of botany is fmall, and foon becomes familiar to people of the profeffion; the fame may be faid of the other branches of the materia medica from animals, minerals, and chemical preparations of thofe; but to proceed further as a naturalift, is only proper for gentlemen of fortune, leifure, and leifibabbers as the Dutch express it; or otioforum hominum negotia. From 43 d. 30 m. to 38 d. 30 m. N. Lat. and from 73 d. 30 m. to 78 d. Weft long. from London. From 33 d. to 36 d. 30 m. N. Lat. C 3 SECT. SECTION IX. Concerning the PROVINCE of NEW HAMPSHIRE, A$ S the four colonies of New-England were origi nally fettled by the fame fort of the fame fort of people called * Puritans; their municipal laws, customs, and œconomy are nearly the fame, but more especially in New-Hampshire, which was under the affumed jurif diction of Maffachusetts-Bay for many years; therefore to fave repetitions, we refer several things to the fection of Maffachusetts-Bay. The prefent poffeffors have no other claim to their lands but poffeffion and fome uncertain Indian deeds. Upon Mr. Allen's petition to queen Anne, defiring to be put in poffeffion of the wafte lands, the affembly of New-Hampshire paffed acts for confirmation of their township grants and of their boundaries, without any faving of the right of the general proprietor; upon Mr. Allen the proprietor's application, the queen in council difallowed and repealed those acts. The crown affuming the vacant lands, until the proprietors claiming in right of Mr. Mafon fhall make formal proof, that Mr. Mason ever was in poffeffion of these lands; this appears by an action of ejectment brought by the claiming proprietor Mr. Allen against Waldron and Vaughan; Allen, being caft in cofts, appealed home, but his appeal was difmiffed because he had not brought *See vol. I. p. 367. over proof of Mr. Mafon's having ever been in poffeffion, and was ordered to begin de novo. The collective body of the people by their representatives in affembly, have not pretenfion to the vacant or wafte lands, and therefore have no concern in granting of unoccupied lands; all grants or charters of thefe lands, according to the governor's commiffion and inftructions, are vested in the governor and council, with this clause or referve, fo far as in us lies; this reservation feems to favour the claims under Mr. Mafon; as is alfo a clause in the royal new charter of Maffachufets-Bay 1691, "Nothing therein contained shall prejudice any right of Samuel Allen, Efq; claiming under John Mason, Efq; deceased, of any part of the premises." The jurifdiction of this province is indifputably in the crown. In property there are many and various claimers, * 1. As it is faid that Mr. Mason and his heirs and their affigns never complied with the conditions of the grant, in confequence it reverts to the crown; and the crown at prefent is in poffeffion not only of the jurifdiction but property of lands hitherto not granted. 2. Capt. John Tufton Mason, heir in fucceffion, as he fays, to the original grantee capt. John Mason, lately made a conveyance of his right for a small confideration to 14 or 15 perfons of New-Hampshire; by their advertisements in the Boston news-papers they feem to make a bubble of it. Boston post-boy Nov. 9, 1749. "The prefent claimers under the late Samuel Allen of London, will find upon trial, they have no right to any of thefe lands; that the faid claimers under John Tufton Mafon, will be able to make out the right to be in them, and are willing to + The other three colonies of the dominions of New-England, by their respective royal charters, have the property or difpofal of their vacant lands lodged in the reprefentatives of the collective body of the people. *Upon any judgment in the provincial courts of New-Hampshire, by an appeal home, all thefe claims may be finally fettled by the king in council, and prevent all bubblings of property in New-Hampfaire. dispute the point in law, as foon as any perfon will give them opportunity." John Hobby, grandfon and heir of Sir Charles Hobby, fays, that Thomas Allen, heir to col. Allen, by deed of fale, August 28, 1706, conveyed one half of these lands to Sir Charles Hobby of New-England, knight, See vol. I. p. 595. 3. Hobby and Adams claiming under Mr. Allen by their bubbling advertisements, Nov. 9, 1749, published in the Boston post-boy, November 20, 1749, in these words, "Whereas fundry gentlemen in the province of New Hampshire, claim a right to all thofe lands in faid pro"vince and elsewhere which were granted to capt. John "Mafon of London, by letters patent from the council " established at Plymouth dated March 9, 1621, and con"firmed to him by charter from king Charles the firft, dat"ed August 19, 1635; which lands the faid gentlemen "claim under capt. John Tufton Mason, the now pre"tended heir to the faid original patentee: This is there"fore to inform whom it may concern, that although "it should appear that the said Tufton Mason is the lawful "heir to the faid original patentee, (which is yet to be "doubted) it evidently appears that John and Robert "Tufton Mafon, undoubted heirs to the faid original pa tentee, did by an abfolute deed of fale, dated April "27, 1691, in confideration of the fum of 27501. "sterling, convey all their right and title to the faid "lands to Samuel Allen of London, afterwards governor "of New-Hampshire aforefaid, which conveyance we "doubt not will be made to appear legal and valid, the "faid Samuel Allen's claim having been allowed and con"firmed by king William and queen Mary, as ap pears by their charter to the government of the pro"vince of the Maffachusetts-Bay; and that Thomas Al"len, only fon and heir to the faid Samuel Allen, did by "deed of fale, dated August 28, 1706, convey one " half of faid lands to Sir Charles Hobby of Boston, New"England, Knight, under whom John Hobby late of Barbadoes, |